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Hi Hello,I am a happy David user. With tons of perfect scans in the past 3 year.

But recently I am facing a problem. The shape fusion was not giving me satisfactory result. So I re-calibrated David and then it was fine. But the next time I open David again Shape fusion is not satisfactory. I Re-calibrate it then it is fine. So now each time I use David I have to re-calibrate and use. Camera and projector are fixed could there be any setting or any other that I have missed out?Regardsand Best to the Team

By Shapefusion not working working I mean the automatic Alignment of the different scans works but the orientation is not perfect. There is a mal alignment of the different scans. But in the same setting if I re-calibrate it works well.

does this happen with files scanned in the previous, last session or scanned in a current session (without a fresh calibration)?

Just some questions to understand the problem - maybe you could try this?:-Do a fresh calibration after a new start AND you do some scans with this calibration.-Now please save these files without any alignment to a directory(A).-Please align the files now (without closing DAVID) -Save all files in their new position to a different directory(B).-Close DAVID and restart it.-Load the files with native orientation from directory A. Align them the very same way and the same order as you did it before. -Now add the files from directory B.>>> Is there some bigger difference (there might be some smaller difference due to the arbirtary auto-align start)? If yes, we should investigate this....

If these sets A and B match quite the same way, I assume you mean that meshes scanned after a new start using the calibration of a previous session don't match?Are the files CameraSetup.xml and ProjectorSetup.xml (in the Settings directory) updated after you close DAVID? (to make that sure, you might rename the old xmls - DAVID should write new files) If yes:Maybe the problem is due to different working temperatures of cam and projector (calibrate and scan only after some warm-up time of both devices)? - This would mean that there should be also a problem if you calibrate your system being cold, wait some minutes and scan after that pause....

It would be interesting to see if there any problems writing or reading the configuration files (subfolder "Settings", files "CameraSetup.xml" and "ProjectorSetup.xml").Please check (as Gunter suggested) whether the files are updated each time you calibrate and each time you close DAVID (they should get a new time stamp).Also please look at the Debug Console Window during start and when closing. It should not show any error messages.

Simple way -) To prepare lost of calibration cause David crash (it should happens from time to time)i allways save the calibration xml´s by click the save button ... If you use the USB Stick Version check if it´s not out of memory -)

ah ok. i do this since David2. Most probs with crash and lost calibration are gone with David3 btw 64bit.David3 is a great and stable product. or let say with the word out of satillete receiver manual."Ihr Receiver verhält sich wie Ihr PC. Von Zeit zu Zeit kann er abstürzen." sry cant translate this... If you said it´s saved automaticlly i had the same prob. Would it saved again at close ?i see the message in the debug window.

Sven wrote:Hi Milz,DAVID does indeed save the calibration result to "Settings" sub-folder immediately after calibration, so you wouldn't lose it in case DAVID crashes (which of course it never does Sven